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The gardener fcems to be well aware, that 

 fuffering a tree to bear fruit too early checks 

 its growth; and there may be fome analogy, 

 in this refpect, between vegetables and ani- 

 mals. But even admitting this, if the cow 

 receive no injury as to thriving, cahing, 

 milking, nor any other than that of being 

 checked in point of fize-, the objection ap- 

 pears to me to fall. If, however, early 

 production check not only the cow, but her 

 progeny likewifc, an objection no doubt will 

 lie againft it. 



I have long been of opinion that it is, in 

 general, the farmer's intereft to let his hei- 

 fers take the bull whenever nature prompts 

 them. There is undoubtedly fome prefent 

 profit arifing from their coming in at an ear- 

 ly age ; and whether a middlc-iized cow may 

 not afterwards afford as much neat profit as 

 one of larger ftature, is certainly a moot point. 



Much however depends upon KEEP. A 

 ftarveliiig heifer will not take the bull at a 

 year old. Nor ought any yearling heifer 

 which has taken the bull, ever afterwards to 

 be dinted in keep. If (he be ill kept while 

 with calf, there will be danger at, or after, 



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